Black holes are voracious eaters, but they’re also quite messy, and often after devouring a star, they’ll let out a big burp, launching jets of high energy particles through space. Now, in a recent study, a team of astrophysicists has figured out the formula behind the timing of these burps. Also today:Skiing, hiking and roads are taking a toll on wolverinesThe buzzy, chirpy sounds of the Jurassic forestA notorious invasive species has been here a lot longer than we thought. Does that

A 2-minute bike forecast for Chicago's Lakefront Trail, north and south of Navy Pier. It covers trail temperatures, the warmest times of day, humidity and dew points, wet-bulb temperatures and how sweaty skin will feel, lake-breeze winds, and forecast confidence. It also suggests inland trails away from the lake: the North Branch Trail (about 20 miles) and the Des Plaines River Trail (40+ miles). Data from NWS Chicago hourly forecasts and NOAA buoys. Music: Blue Dot Sessions (Free Music

The fall season involves longer nights and shorter days. Under clear skies, temperature inversions can form. This podcast explains what they are and what the impacts can be for the North Sound.

Lime Time

With days slightly longer than Earth’s and years nearly twice as long, the Red Planet follows a different calendar.Also, Saturn reaches opposition in early October, offering its best viewing of the year, before the Orionid meteor shower brings shooting stars from debris left behind by Halley’s Comet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Continental crust is buoyant, which is why continents stand high above the ocean floor. Yet rocks in western Norway contain microscopic grains of coesite, a form of quartz that forms only under pressures found about 100 km down. A slab of continent was dragged deep into the mantle, and then came back up. In this episode, Torgeir Andersen, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo, explains how the rocks of Norway's Western Gneiss Region made that round trip some 400 million years ago, and why

This week’s Weekly Weather Brief is a little different. Instead of our usual roundup of current weather events, we’re taking a closer look at Climate Week NYC 2026.Emily and Kerrin are joined by meteorologist and science communicator Elisa Raffa to talk about her takeaways from Climate Week, including the challenges of communicating climate change in today’s media landscape, the importance of sharing solutions, and why bringing together so many different voices matters.Elisa shares why she left

It's going to feel like summer today but feel like autumn over the weekend with lots of sunshine.

A solo episode from me, detailing my recent visit to my MP!I talk about why MP engagement is so important, even if it can feel a teensy bit frustrating; how and why my MP visit came about; what happened during my visit; and my top tips for MP visits (because obviously I'm now officially an expert having done one..!)If you're looking for tips and a bit of gently encouragement to engage with your MP on climate stuff, whether that's off the back of a People's Emergency Briefing, or something else, I

Episode 20. Season Climax. Double points for the final forecast results. Our contestants reveal which of the locations from the season was the most difficult to forecast. Digital Dave awards the Listeners' Choice Award. Finally, the forecasts are tallied and the totals revealed. One AI clearly comes out ahead and wins the season crown, but not by much. We'll see what happens in Season 2.

Takeaway: Even in Greenland’s dark winter, heat at the glacier bed can keep hidden water pathways pressurized and ready beneath the ice.Greenland’s fast outlet glaciers help decide how much ice reaches the ocean, but some of their most important plumbing is buried under hundreds to thousands of meters of ice. This episode goes beneath Helheim Glacier in east Greenland, where researchers used a stripped-down computer model to ask a simple, surprising question: even in winter, when no surface

Amy Westervelt, Nina Lakhani and Alleen Brown chat about Standing Rock 10 years later, Global Witness's latest report on assassinations of land defenders, and why Palestinians in Gaza are land defenders, too. Meanwhile, Afro-Indigenous Garífuna leaders in Honduras have set up an occupation in front of the country's Supreme Court, in defense of their land rights. Nina interviews Karen Spring, coordinator of the the Honduras Solidarity Network, about what this has to do with Trump and the TV

Send us Fan Mail A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck southern Mindanao in the Philippines. It’s a powerful example of how physical geography, human geography, and hazard science all connect — and why understanding earthquakes is way more than memorising plate boundaries. Let’s break down what happened, why it happened, and what it teaches us. Support the show Check out my website, Facebook groups and other social media. www.ritchiecunningham.com Geography Expert Substack | Ritchie Cunning...

June Boyle is the founder of Cerco Consulting.For more info go to:Homegrown National Park, founded by Doug Tallamy: https://homegrownnationalpark.org/Wildr Places, host of the Less Lawn, More Life Challenge: https://www.joinwildr.com/The Less Lawn, More Life Challenge: https://www.lesslawnmorelife.com/Wild Ones, national org with local chapters: https://wildones.org/Healthy Yards, Westchester County-based organization: https://www.healthyyards.org/Field Notes, by June

A tree grows out of the ground. But does it come from the ground? Four hundred years ago, Jean-Baptiste van Helmont planted a willow tree in a carefully weighed pot of soil to find out. His experiment produced evidence he couldn't fully explain—and helped open a trail of discovery connecting forests, fuels, and the atmosphere. In this episode of Bionic Planet, I revisit the prehistory of the voluntary carbon market, from the ancient Greeks' four elements to Francis Bacon's assault on dogma and the

Border wars: The fight against illegal pesticides

It is with heavy hearts that we share the sad news of the sudden passing of Dr. William (Bill) Haneberg, former Kentucky state geologist and director of the 13th Kentucky Geological Survey (2016–2023).Bill brought together experts from multiple academic disciplines to address complex geological problems. He placed a strong emphasis on engaging societal stakeholders and translating scientific information about hazards and risks into knowledge that could be understood and used by the people and

Today, Matt speaks with Drew Shula, trained architect and Founder and CEO of Verdical Group, about the part of the climate problem hiding in plain sight: the buildings we live and work in, which account for roughly 40% of global carbon emissions. He breaks down the two halves of a building's carbon footprint, the energy it burns and the materials it's made of, and makes the case that we already know how to build net zero today - almost nothing requires it, which is why net zero is still less than

DescriptionIn this episode of the MEER Podcast, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Adam McKay, the creator of The Big Short, Vice, Don't Look Up, and founder of Yellow Dot Studios, joins us to discuss how storytelling, climate communication, his latest essay The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate, and why telling the truth about climate has become one of society's greatest challenges. Adam reflects on his transition from comedy into political and climate-focused filmmaking, and how

Wendy Mariko Johnson farms in Floyd County, Iowa, near Charles City. She grew up on an Iowa farm, left at 18 in the 1990s for an 18-year career in the Los Angeles fashion industry, and returned in 2010 with her husband Johnny Rafkin. Having watched farms close across Iowa in the 1980s, she came back determined to follow the three things that carried her parents through that era: diversification, low cost of production, and little to no debt. Today Wendy runs two businesses from the same land. Jóia